S&M I Wanna Live trailer

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Composite

It's like Civic Nation for track bikes. Please say no to shitty geometry, but feel free to run race wheels on the street. 

Once upon a time I owned a set of 13x8" magnesium 3 piece wheels.

The highest of flanges; this confirms it: Pentragrams are rad at any angle.

Rubberband Man

Wild as the Taliban:

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Date: 2008-09-28, 1:32PM PDT


Vintage mountain Bike AVP Chic Choc

21 speeds
Vintage front and back suspension (replacement elastomers included)
V-breaks
Front and back baggage racks available. Yes, you can use them without blocking the suspensions!
It has not been used freqently in the last few years and is a little bit rusty, but still works fine.

Email me at vlemieux@sfu.ca or call Vincent and Christine at (604) 294-8817







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Sean Burns

Just watched this over the morning Bialetti.

high dro 4 ming

Some time ago, Sailor and I had a talk over sushi about the newer manufacturing trends in the bicycle industry. One of the items brought up was hydroforming. He was super excited at the thought of someday being able to pen flowing swooping cruiser designs, and have them hydroformed so that he could weld them together, making for aesthetically striking tube shapes. ...and I think that time is almost upon us. Well, maybe not for the average garage builder, but soon. The MTB world has been on this technology for a while, making for much lighter, structurally sound full suspension aluminum frames. Road bikes are in on it too, as a lot of today's frames use a hydroformed front triangle, with a bonded carbon rear triangle.

I was recently linked to this great video from Dedacciai which basically looks like some industry promo reel demonstrating why their hydroforming kicks ass. Morgan, could you translate to verify please?



Being the compulsive Youtube link follower that I am, I stumbled upon this Great DIY hydroforming demonstration (after a couple of mice vs. giant centipede type nature vids of course):



Incredible! This guy has the right idea! Not sure if that tuned pipe is going to actually produce any power on whatever small displacement engine he plans on butting it up to, but who cares! That was rad. Sailor, the next revision of your pedal powered tank is going to be great if you do it this way!

For an actually useful demonstration of how hydroforming works, watch this video.

Seymour bomb

From what I've read, it looks like Version 2.0 of the Seymour bomb was a success.

Here's what Zoobomber Jordash has to say:

I was near the middle of the group about halfway down the mountain when a big bike passed me, so I drafted her to slingshot myself ahead to catch up with the mini ahead of me. I got up into draft position with the mini and went to pass him but a longboarder (it doesn't matter who) was attempting to pass us both on the same side. The longboarder body-checked me, presumably to keep his board from hitting my tires, and I went down immediately. I slid for a while before hitting the grassy shoulder. Thanks Team Van for picking me up! No hard feelings anywhere. Shit happens.

The best part is that after some first aid, I was able to bomb Mt. Seymour again without incident! It's beautiful. Great high speed corners.

I'm still waiting for an actual flickr set to appear. Its almost been a week!

New for the fall season

Triple bars. Why settle for the limitations of traditional bar setups?